Top 100 Tracy Morgan Quotes
#1. My voice is very distinct. People hear Tracy Morgan's voice, and they know Tracy Morgan right off the bat because I've been in their homes for so many years.
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#2. Working with Tracy Morgan on '30 Rock' is really great. I love Tracy. He's wonderful. Well, until his fish tank caught fire - his apartment burned up and flooded my apartment. We live in the same building, but I'm eight floors below him and we had to evacuate.
Sherri Shepherd
#3. The Tracy Morgan you see is the Tracy Morgan in real life. He's a great guy but ... man, is he a nut.
Kurt Fuller
#4. Tracy Morgan is subdued. I'm cool. I'm chilled out.
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#5. Life smacks Tracy Morgan in the face, and I don't mean to talk in third party, but no, it doesn't stop raining when I come outside, no, absolutely not. I'm very in touch.
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#6. Tracy Morgan apologizes for his homophobic rant, still no apologies for the sketch about the guy living under the street.
Andy Kindler
#7. I don't know what Tracy Morgan does onstage, but I can assure you, it's no act.
Andy Kindler
#8. I think people would want to see Tracy Morgan host 'Saturday Night Live.'
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#9. Having a daughter makes you see things in a different way. You have to see how you're carrying yourself because there's a little girl. There's not a little boy, there's a little girl. I think I'm a little more overprotective.
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#10. When Richard Pryor did comedy, it was like he was having a conversation.
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#11. My father was funnier than me. My father was Richard Pryor-funny. I'm just a better businessman.
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#12. I know my spirit is not mean, and I have a very good spirit and a funny spirit.
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#13. America doesn't like to hear about things like welfare. 'Don't talk about that. We don't like what it did to people!' Yeah, but it happened.
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#14. Most creative thing I've ever done? Got somebody pregnant.
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#16. I'm not really much into politics, because it's rarely discussed in my line of work.
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#17. I know how bad bullying can hurt. I was bullied when I was a kid.
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#18. I give [Barack Obama] a 10 [on a scale of 1 to 10] because he's not God, and he inherited a couple of wars, and a financial mess.I want to see him curse somebody out on TV. You can't finesse a bull. He's gotta throw down. He's in the shark tank.
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#19. I don't control the line of 'funny,' 'funny,' 'funny,' 'not funny.'
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#20. If I gamble, I'll play roulette. My wife and I will play roulette, and that's about it. I'm not a heavy gambler.
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#21. Whatever I did on 'Saturday Night Live' is going to stay and remain on 'Saturday Night Live.'
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#22. What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment. I want to feel it all because I've realized nothing lasts.
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#23. Black people dance well because we start early - there's music being played everywhere. White people? They don't start dancing until they get to college, and by then, it's too late; the bottom don't move with the top no matter how hard they try.
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#24. I had a great time working on 'Saturday Night Live.' It was one of the important times in my life.
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#25. I don't have a hateful bone in my body. I don't believe anyone should be bullied or made to feel bad about who they are.
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#26. People walked out on Richard Pryor and he's the funniest man alive.
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#27. I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, and I consider myself lucky and blessed to be where I am - just working.
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#28. I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She made sure we had Christmases. That was my mother. My father wasn't there for that.
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#29. The only thing that stays the same in life is change.
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#30. Let's focus on the funny ... That's what I'm focused on ... This is the gift God gave me. That's what I want to touch in people.
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#31. I don't even read the newspaper; I don't read that crap.
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#32. My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me, he was still a rock star.
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#33. I don't believe in storks. I know they don't deliver babies; they deliver pickles.
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#35. I guess I'm entertaining; I guess I'm interesting. I guess the things that I say sell papers. I guess they sell magazines. I don't know.
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#36. If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny.
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#38. The only person who knows what's in my wallet is my wife.
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#39. The actors are different, although I didn't set out to be different. My inspiration came from people like Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence and Will Smith. The genre is what it is. My inspiration was drawn from great movies like 48 Hours, Bad Boys and Rush Hour.
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#40. I don't take any relationships for granted and I won't ever again. I just enjoy life.
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#41. When you look at the artists who have come up through 'Billboard' over the years, it's incredible.
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#43. So I think all comedians are earning their wings into heaven. We're all going to heaven, but everybody's not going to get their wings. Some people are just going to be regular angels. Doing cleanup, janitor work. In heaven, I'm going to sit on the couch with Oprah.
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#44. I was never a big comic book fan. I was always more into the baseball cards.
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#45. Martin Lawrence is one of my comedic heroes, and he's a genius.
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#47. If you're the kind of person who likes numbers and statistics, I'm the long shot - the Lotto Powerball winner. I'm the mutation in the DNA that makes evolution a reality. I am the new black.
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#48. I have friends who are black, white, purple, gay, straight, Martian, yellow, old, and young. I have friends who are animals and a few who I believe to be robots. All of them are people to me. In my mind, it's not about what you look like or what you do; it's about who you are inside.
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#49. I can't watch American Idol ... it's like karaoke without the booze.
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#50. That's a gift God's given us: the ability to work together in collaborations.
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#51. When I'm in the mood to listen to music, I do like to go to the SkyBar [ L.A.].
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#52. There's nothing in the world like live entertainment. With TV, you have to wait for your results; with live entertainment, people let you know right then and there. That relationship is established in 30 seconds. The first 30 seconds, they'll let you know whether they like you or not.
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#53. I come from where Mike Tyson came from. I come from right across the street from Jay-Z. I didn't have a pond in my backyard. I saw violence.
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#54. Working with Bruce Willis makes my career authentic. I may not get an Oscar, but I worked with Bruce Willis. That matters more to me.
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#55. I have a pretty diverse audience, and that makes me happy - laughter is universal, and I don't differentiate between people at all. Why should I? People are people. There's no reason why one person can't relate to any other person on this planet in some way or another.
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#56. If I get some Bruce Lee nun-chucks that he actually used in a movie, those are going in the case. Those will never be used. Those will never be touched.
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#57. No one set that I ever do is the same. I mean, if I go to a comedy club, and I perform three sets, all three sets are different because anything can happen in between sets.
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#58. Listen, Bruce Lee fought out of anger. That's why they call it the 'Fists of Fury.' Michael Jackson danced with fury. I do stand up out of fury. I'm not mad at anybody. I'm not mad at any human being because I'm a human being.
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#59. It's like going to the zoo when you come to my house. I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider.
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#60. What am I afraid of? The IRS. That's it. I don't want those people knockin' on my door, man.
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#61. I got five kids - I claim three for income tax purposes.
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#62. I don't see myself as angry, although other people see that. I just see myself as a short, dumpy guy with bad feet, and I'm passionate.
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#63. I was like any other inner-city kid with a chip on his shoulder because his daddy and his mommy wasn't together.
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#64. I deal with my sons like young men. If they have a problem with something, they come to me. I am the type of dad that will drop everything I am doing for them, and always tell them to talk to me about it.
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#65. Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.
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#66. There aren't a lot of guys out there keeping it real. Everybody's been branded. Everybody's been bought and sold.
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#67. I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it's cool to have strong and powerful pets.
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#68. I've played outrageous characters my whole career.
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#69. They say that every Jewish person is supposed to love one black person in his life. I'm glad Lorne Michaels chose me.
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#70. Anybody who's lived in the ghetto knows that you don't move during the daytime. Here's why: You don't want anyone to know you're leaving, and you don't want anyone knowing where you're going.
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#71. I'm human, I feel, I understand. That's the highest level of love, is understanding - when you can understand someone, when you can love them with their flaws and their faults. So I understand, I consider. I may speak the truth, but I'll consider your feelings, too.
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#72. Comedians are the monkeys of acting. When you go to the zoo, everybody loves the monkey exhibit.
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#73. I'm from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. So, you grow up around police officers. Some of them are in your family, some of them you have encounters with. I had a young police officer we were friends with in our group.
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#74. Growing up in the ghetto is pretty hard. It's poverty; it's frustration.
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#75. I'm around my kids every day. I'm regular. We're a regular family. My wife cooks, she washes clothes, I read books, I pump my own gas, I get my own hair cut.
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#76. I'm a human being. I feel all emotions. I'm not just happy all the time. Sometimes, I'm sad and feel the blues. Sometimes I even want to feel the blues. Sometimes, you want to feel down.
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#77. I don't get on the phone and prank people and things like that on the phone with people, no.
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#78. Eddie [Murphy] is an icon. He's one of the reason why I started doing comedy in the beginning. He opened a lot of doors for black people.
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#79. You get somebody to crack a smile, that's a beautiful thing.
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#80. I never wanted the ha-ha-ha laughter [at my shows]. I always aimed for the gut. I always aimed for the pretty girls in the front row, laughing and leaning over and pooting.
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#81. In New York, we get down. In L.A., everybody's pretty much standing around like they're at a keg stand. You got to get the party started, so I just take my shirt off.
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#82. The truth is, I've never thought of myself as the Michael Jordan of comedy. And that's a good thing. You know why? Because I'm not. Wasn't that Richard Pryor? Yes, it was. I know what I am: I'm funny!
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#83. Reality is the scary thing. Not my work, not comedy.
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#84. I'm glad I dropped out of high school, man. I wouldn't be where I'm at. I would have had a net. I'm glad I didn't have anything to fall back on, man, because that made me go for my dreams that much harder.
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#85. I'm not getting any younger. You're not getting any younger, so yeah. You age.
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#86. 'Saturday Night Live' is live television. Nothing can compare to that.
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#87. If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn't kill people.
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#88. I don't even deal with politics. I just don't believe in them. I think politics are politricks. My whole thing is power to the people. I don't put my faith in any one man. I keep my faith in God. That's where I keep my faith.
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#89. If you can get your life down to one minute at a time, you don't miss anything. You have total abundance of information and material.
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#90. I'm art. You're art. We are God's greatest works, simple as that.
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#91. My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of 'The Color Purple.' It had a much different soundtrack and no trees, but that desperation was the same.
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#92. Even when I'm sitting up in this glass castle, I still got my street soldiers telling me what's happening.
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#93. Bad news travels at the speed of light; good news travels like molasses.
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#94. My heart is committed to giving everyone the same rights that I deserve for myself.
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#95. We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.
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#96. Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music.
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#98. The things I did on Saturday Night Live are going to stay as Saturday Night Live. You've never seen Eddie Murphy do a Gumby movie. There's a lot more new material inside of me.
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#99. Ladies are honest. They're my motivation. They know what's funny, and the dudes just follow.
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#100. People bring camera phones into comedy shows and clubs and concerts, and sound bites never come out right.
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